Richard Crenna
Biography
Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director. He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, the first three Rambo movies, Hot Shots! Part Deux, and The Flamingo Kid. Crenna played "Walter Denton" in the CBS radio and CBS-TV network series Our Miss Brooks, and "Luke McCoy" in ABC's TV comedy series, The Real McCoys, (1957–63), which moved to CBS-TV in September 1962. Crenna was in one of the few TV political dramatic series Slattery's People on CBS. Crenna played "Colonel Trautman" in the first three Rambo movies. He also played "Frank Skimmerhorn" in the critically acclaimed mini-series Centennial.
Known For
Top 40 Movies
The Rape of Richard Beck
1985
First Blood
1982
Body Heat
1981
Rambo
2008
Table for Five
1983
Rambo III
1988
Afganistan: Land in Crisis
2002
To Serve and Protect
1999
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965
A Girl Named Sooner
1975
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
1994
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
1987
Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985
Fugitive Family
1980
Deep Family Secrets
1997
A Cop
1972
Sabrina
1995
Leviathan
1989
Wait Until Dark
1967
Honky Tonk
1974
The War Between the Tates
1977
The High Price of Passion
1986
And the Sea Will Tell
1991
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993
Montana
1990
Internal Affairs
1988
Breakheart Pass
1975
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
1994
Nightmare
1974
Doubletake
1985
The Evil
1978
The Flamingo Kid
1984
Disneyland '59
1959
Out of the Ashes
2003
Wrongfully Accused
1998
Jade
1995
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993
The Sand Pebbles
1966
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
1995